Nantes take on the visitors St Etienne in the round 38 match of French Ligue 1. The match will be played on Saturday, May 21th at Stade de la Beaujoire (Nantes).
The Canaries, thanks to the victory in the French Cup, will play in European competition next season. It would seem that you can safely end the season and not think about a place in the standings, but no. Bookmakers clearly underestimated Nantes in the home match against Rennes, overestimated Lyon and as a result the hosts performed very well. The Canaries will not rise above the eighth line. That's just surprising - at the "Beaujoire" for the last 15 rounds, Comboiret's wards lost only twice: to the champion and leading the fight for getting into the Champions League Marseille.
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The "greens" desperately need points in the end of the season to avoid relegation, but the situation is such that it is necessary to gain at least one point in this game in order to get into the relegation playoffs. Metz, the main rival of Saint Etienne, is playing with PSG, it would seem that this is his chance, but judging by the latest results of the visitors, there is nothing to hope for in a duel against even Nantes, which is not quite motivated from a tournament point of view. Firstly, in the last eight matches, the Greens scored only four points, and secondly, Duprat's team is awful on the road, conceding three or six goals is not a big problem for them, and, most importantly, the level of players and the class of the team is elementary not enough to play with Nantes from a position of strength on thier field.
It can be assumed that the guests will simply wait for news from Paris. And they will try first of all to keep their gates intact. Nantes does not need anything, but it is unlikely that we will see boring football from the hosts, who at the end of the season suddenly scored as many as 13 goals in five matches. Given the weak defense of the Greens few more goals will fly into the gates of Saint Etienne. Absolutely cannot believe that the “canaries” in some incomprehensible way will lose the match with one of the main outsiders of the season.
Prediction for the match: Nantes to win with +0.0 handicap.
